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unusual facts about San Marcos, Baja California Sur



1995 Pacific hurricane season

Officials issued a tropical storm watch and later a warning for Baja California Sur south of La Paz, which was later extended from Loreto on the east coast to San Juanico on the west coast.

Aaryn Gries

Aaryn Elizabeth Gries (born September 3, 1990 in San Angelo, Texas) is an American student and former model from San Marcos, Texas.

Abejas Phase

Sites associated with the Abejas phase include: Coxcatlan Cave, San Marcos, Abejas, Purron Cave and an area near Chilac.

C. B. Hudson

Hudson played lead guitar in the jazz band at Lake Highlands High School, and upon graduating, he attended Southwest Texas State University in San Marcos, earning a degree in psychology in 1999.

Champ d'Asile

Mexican governor Antonio María Martínez, having heard about this expedition, sent his own troops to San Marcos, wary of an attack.

Clarisonic

He holds a bachelors degree from University of Texas, a Master of Science degree in biology from Texas State University–San Marcos and a doctorate in microbiology from Texas A&M University.

Coleman University

1986 – the San Marcos campus was opened to serve growing populations in the northern part of San Diego County.

Cousteau

Jacques Cousteau Island, the new name of Cerralvo Island, a Mexican Island of the Baja California Sur

Daniel K. Ludwig

In 1954, on a trip to Baja California Sur, Ludwig founded Exportadora de Sal, SA, which became the "Largest Salt Company in the World", at the Guerrero Negro Lagoon.

Dave Moulton

By 1983 he was doing well enough to move his business to a stand-alone location in San Marcos, California.

David Crabb

Crabb graduated from Texas State University–San Marcos in 1997 and then got an MFA in Photography and Performance from Cranbook Academy of Art in 1999.

Deportivo Marquense

Club Deportivo Marquense, also just known as Marquense, are a Guatemalan professional football club based in San Marcos, Department of San Marcos, and who compete in the Liga Nacional, the nation's top footballing division, since 2000.

Marquense played C.F. Pachuca, the Mexican First Division defending champions, in the 2007 CONCACAF Champions' Cup quarterfinals, with Pachuca winning the first leg 2-0 at home on February 22, 2007 and 1-0 in San Marcos on February 28, 2007, thus eliminating the Guatemalan team on a 3-0 aggregate.

Dipetalogaster

Dipetalogaster, a genus of Triatominae, the kissing bugs, has only a single species, Dipetalogaster maxima, which is found in the Mexican state of Baja California Sur.

Edgar Baumann

He set his personal best (84.70 metres) on October 10, 1999 at a meet in San Marcos, Texas, setting a South American record.

Fernando Silva Santisteban

His professional training began at the National University of Trujillo, later to transfer to the Faculty of Arts at the National Major University of San Marcos.

George H. Sisson

This was extended with additional purchases to 28° North, which later was to become the border between Baja California and Baja California Sur, Land was also purchased northward to the United States border.

House of Several Stories

House of Several Stories was remounted for a limited run at the PHS Foundation Studio Theatre in San Marcos, Texas, opening February 17, 2009.

Ignacio Elizondo

Francisco Ignacio Elizondo Villarreal, (Salinas Valley, New Kingdom of León, New Spain, March 9, 1766 - San Marcos, Texas, New Spain, September 2, 1813), was a New Leonese royalist general, mostly known for his victorious plot to seek to capture important insurgency precursors of the Mexican War of Independence such as Miguel Hidalgo, Ignacio Allende, and Juan Aldama in Baján, Coahuila in 1811.

Javier Sologuren

Back in Peru he was a professor at the universities of San Marcos, Universidad Nacional Agraria la Molina and Enrique Guzmán y Valle "La Cantuta" in Lima.

Joe Rollins

In addition to his wife of sixty-four years, he was survived by a son, Guy Rollins (born March 15, 1946) of Wimberley in Hays County near San Marcos, Texas; two daughters, Sally Sodal of Boulder and Edna Gary Thomas of Doha, Qatar.

José Antonio Mijares

As a Lieutenant, he was sent to Baja California Sur, joining the command of Captain Manuel Pineda Munoz, who had defeated a U. S. Navy attempt to capture Mulege in the Battle of Mulege and was moving south to attack American forces in La Paz.

Julie Choffel

Julie Choffel was born and raised in Austin, studied geography at Texas State, and graduated from the MFA Program for Poets and Writers at the University of Massachusetts–Amherst.

KBNT-CD

Eventually the station increased its transmitting power and its signal, while still not reaching San Diego proper, could be picked up in Escondido, San Marcos, Vista and Fallbrook.

Kim Rossmo

After serving as director of research at the Police Foundation in Washington, DC, from 2001 to 2003, he moved to Texas State University-San Marcos where he currently holds the Endowed Chair in Criminology and is director of the Center for Geospatial Intelligence and Investigation.

Mission Buenaventura-class transport oiler

Each of the ships was named after a mission or settlement along the El Camino Real in California, the sole exception being Mission Loreto, named for a settlement in Baja California Sur.

Nahún Solís

Nahún Alberto Solís Peña (born 18 January 1989 in San Marcos, Santa Bárbara, Honduras) is a Honduran footballer, currently playing as a central defender for Platense.

National Safety Associates

In 1993, they began selling the nutritional supplement Juice Plus, manufactured by Natural Alternatives International in San Marcos, California.

Plumbeous Vireo

The Plumbeous Vireo (Vireo plumbeus) is a small North American songbird, ranging from far southeastern Montana and western South Dakota south to the Pacific coast of Mexico, including the extreme southern regions of Baja California Sur.

Punta Prieta

Punta Prieta, Baja California Sur, a small town on the west coast of the Mexican state of Baja California Sur

Rocas Alijos

They are part of Comondú municipality of the Mexican state of Baja California Sur, and situated about 300 km west of the mainland.

Roy Head

George Frazier would pursue real estate investment interests, and Bill Pennington followed in his mother's footsteps and become a successful owner of Pennington Funeral Home in San Marcos.

San Antonio Missions National Historical Park

:Other missions bearing the name San José include the Mission San José located in Fremont, California, and the Misión San Jose de Comondú in Baja California Sur.

San Marcos, Baja California Sur

Fishing is the main attraction, being roughly in the middle of the Sea of Cortés.

San Marcos, California

Jose Alvarado was killed at the Pauma Massacre in 1846, and the land was left to his wife; she then sold the land to Lorenzo Soto.

San Marcos is located in California's 50th congressional district and is represented by Republican Duncan D. Hunter.

San Marcos, Guerrero

It is located 18 km inland and along Federal Highway 200 which is better known locally as the Acapulco-Pinotepa Nacional highway.

Torgeir Bryn

In the U.S., Bryn attended MiraCosta Community College (Oceanside, California) and then Southwest Texas State University (San Marcos, Texas), where he played NCAA college basketball.

XHBZC-TV

XHBZC channel 8, known on-air as Canal 8, is an educational and public television station owned and operated by the government of State of Baja California Sur in La Paz.

owner = Gobierno del Estado de Baja California Sur|


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